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Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Crystallographically characterized hexa- (1) and pentacoordinate (2a–2e) silicon complexes, which feature a mono-anion of an α-amino acid among the (O,N)-chelating ligands. For clarity, the formally dative bond between Si and the amino group is represented by a dashed line.